New Posts For Thread: Karma and sufferinghttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44031/27390977/Karma_and_sufferingI'm inquiring mostly about how people who think past lives and karma are realities deal with suffering they consider to be karmic in origin, inspired to this line of thinking by a posting elsewhere that asked for personal accounts about how non-ChrisWell, in my experience, all it takes to get over physical or mental suffering is, to get a psychic reading of the past lifetime that is causing the problem, and remove any attached entities that prevent the physical body from healing itself. See howhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44031/27390977/Karma_and_suffering?post_id=521566349#521566349Well, in my experience, all it takes to get over physical or mental suffering is, to get a psychic reading of the past lifetime that is causing the problem, and remove any attached entities that prevent the physical body from healing itself. See howThu, 05 Jul 2012 07:45:50 -0500I'm inquiring mostly about how people who think past lives and karma are realities deal with suffering they consider to be karmic in origin...While I believe to some extent that various types of suffering have karmic origins, I'm not sure that the behttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44031/27390977/Karma_and_suffering?post_id=518489229#518489229I'm inquiring mostly about how people who think past lives and karma are realities deal with suffering they consider to be karmic in origin...While I believe to some extent that various types of suffering have karmic origins, I'm not sure that the beWed, 11 Apr 2012 09:03:41 -0500It really helps when one understands that suffering is neither a result of a random occurence (as per atheism) nor of a punishment by evil being/s (as per various non-Vedic theistic views) but of one's own fault in the past. To transcend the perceptihttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44031/27390977/Karma_and_suffering?post_id=518397811#518397811It really helps when one understands that suffering is neither a result of a random occurence (as per atheism) nor of a punishment by evil being/s (as per various non-Vedic theistic views) but of one's own fault in the past. To transcend the perceptiSun, 08 Apr 2012 16:05:17 -0500Free will gives us the option to turn our backs on love, which it seems humans choose to do more often than not. The rest of the physical world is much more in tune with love.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44031/27390977/Karma_and_suffering?post_id=517913835#517913835Free will gives us the option to turn our backs on love, which it seems humans choose to do more often than not. The rest of the physical world is much more in tune with love.Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:17:38 -0500That the universe is fundamentally guided by love is a pleasant belief that may enable a person to relate better to others.However, I honestly can't see much evidence of any such guidance in nature.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44031/27390977/Karma_and_suffering?post_id=517773779#517773779That the universe is fundamentally guided by love is a pleasant belief that may enable a person to relate better to others.However, I honestly can't see much evidence of any such guidance in nature.Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:16:27 -0500My ideas on karma are shaped by two guiding principles:The universe is infinite.The fundamental guiding force in the universe is Love.The ramifications of the first principle are enormous. An infinite system can never be out of balance. So I have tohttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44031/27390977/Karma_and_suffering?post_id=517698991#517698991My ideas on karma are shaped by two guiding principles:The universe is infinite.The fundamental guiding force in the universe is Love.The ramifications of the first principle are enormous. An infinite system can never be out of balance. So I have toMon, 19 Mar 2012 09:42:01 -0500I believe in this, just like the story with Jesus and the blind man. The disciples asked," why was this man borned blind? Was it his sin or the sin of his parents that he be born blind." And Jesus answerd, "neither, he was borned blind to show the glhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44031/27390977/Karma_and_suffering?post_id=496457165#496457165I believe in this, just like the story with Jesus and the blind man. The disciples asked," why was this man borned blind? Was it his sin or the sin of his parents that he be born blind." And Jesus answerd, "neither, he was borned blind to show the glFri, 20 May 2011 20:32:09 -0500Interesting that you would mention that sort of thing, NHT.A cousin of mine has an only child, a daughter who'd be in her thirties by now, who has multiple birth defects-- eyes that don't track and can't focus properly, can't talk or communicate in ahttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44031/27390977/Karma_and_suffering?post_id=491934181#491934181Interesting that you would mention that sort of thing, NHT.A cousin of mine has an only child, a daughter who'd be in her thirties by now, who has multiple birth defects-- eyes that don't track and can't focus properly, can't talk or communicate in aFri, 08 Apr 2011 21:31:52 -0500Dot -You know where my answer will go on this ...not all suffering is to pay it backward -or to pay for one's own karmic debts ...Some souls choose sufferingin order to pay it forward, to benefit mankind ...For example, some folks questioning the exihttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44031/27390977/Karma_and_suffering?post_id=491748189#491748189Dot -You know where my answer will go on this ...not all suffering is to pay it backward -or to pay for one's own karmic debts ...Some souls choose sufferingin order to pay it forward, to benefit mankind ...For example, some folks questioning the exiThu, 07 Apr 2011 15:17:44 -0500it is hard to deal with physical emotional suffering from a karmic perspective in the short term, because we all want our ills to go away NOW and karma means you have to wait and live through whatever the consequences for previous activities were.I dhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44031/27390977/Karma_and_suffering?post_id=491545193#491545193it is hard to deal with physical emotional suffering from a karmic perspective in the short term, because we all want our ills to go away NOW and karma means you have to wait and live through whatever the consequences for previous activities were.I dTue, 05 Apr 2011 18:29:54 -0500